Can you be more specific about the kind of behavior you’re requesting? What would happen with those posts in the activity stream?
I see. Well. In the activity stream there is a thumbnail pulled for blog post activity items if there’s an attachment. If the blog post has an image saved in a custom field, the activity stream will not display a thumbnail. Would it be possible to get it to check first for a custom field image and then check for an inserted image.
How would BP know about the custom fields? The only fields that BP can really know about with any certainty are the post_content field and perhaps the featured image. It probably wouldn’t be wise for BP, by default, to look through all of a post’s custom fields when creating activity items, as many people use them for many different things.
I recommend hooking a filter to either ‘bp_blogs_record_activity_content’ or ‘bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images’, and handling the custom fields for yourself. It shouldn’t be too hard – look at the function bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images() in bp-activity.php for some hints on the markup. (Your function will even more straightforward – you really just need to pull up the value of your custom field, and then build the markup as on the line that reads $content = ... in that function)
yes at least the featured image field. i think i’d be ok with that. and I’ll give it a try my self for now.
